Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The spiritual vein center of the Wei Family.

A middle-aged cultivator with a simple and honest appearance opened his eyes.

”It’s been twelve years, huh?”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself as he assimilated the memories of these years.

There was no need for him to leave the comforting Xianmen Sect, not even a single step.

Twelve years had passed, and there were no significant changes in the Northern Plains. The Righteous and Demonic Alliance, the Great Sun Sect, and the Great Sun Sword Sect were generally peaceful, silently in hibernation, recuperating, enjoying the rare peacetime after more than two hundred years of war.

The Wei Family, after the fall of families like the Shi Family, had incessant minor troubles, embroiled in the direct and collateral lineage disputes of the Beast Dao Hei Clan, which gave Wei Qingqing a headache. For now, no major problems had arisen.

”However, the Gold Copper Stone will only hold out for a few more years at most.”

Jiang Ding pondered in his heart.

The Gold Copper Stone was crucial to the quantity of No. 21 Synthetic Geng Metal produced each year. To secure a portion annually, this priority material was indispensable. Currently, the only channel was through purchasing from the Lingbao Commerce Association, with the source being far too distant from Beast Spirit Immortal City.

”But no need to hurry for now,” Jiang Ding thought.

Jiang Ding took out a token from his storage jade pendant and examined it carefully.

It was an ancient token inscribed with the words ’Falling Void’, bearing the vicissitudes of time.

At this moment, the frequency of its flickering was getting higher. Upon inputting mana, even through Divine Sense, one could vaguely sense a distant void, as if within reach, yet also as if on the far shore.

”Just three more months... quite a brief period,” Jiang Ding mused to himself.

Yes, he intended to enter the mountain gate of the Luoxu Clan with this body.

Firstly, even though he was not in his true form, he still had enough confidence to suppress characters like the Six Dao Saint, an overkill for slaughtering chickens.

Whether to kill or not would mostly depend on his mood at that time; it bore no significant consequences.

As for the profound problem of the escaped young elites becoming a future menace...

Honestly,

Characters like the Six Dao Saint didn’t yet warrant the high-standard ceremony of being eradicated root and branch.

An Tuzi was a closer match.

That guy was very crafty.

Jiang Ding suspected that during the journey to the Great Sun Heavenly Pond, An Tuzi didn’t reveal his full strength at all, strategically retreating, perhaps intentionally to be underestimated, unconsciously lowering one’s guard, laying the groundwork for a lethal future blow.

Secondly, this might involve the Immortal Skill: Void Suppression.

The depths of this thing were immense; it shattered the world’s barriers, which hadn’t healed in tens of thousands of years. He wouldn’t dare to use his true body on such a venture, even with colossal audacity.

Maybe once he’d advanced to the peak of Divinity Transformation.

Within the domain, under the suppression of the world, even Masters of Refining Nothingness might be comparable.

But there’s more,

”This...”

Jiang Ding revealed an expression of pain, taking out an item.

This was a long plate similar to a metallic circuit board. As soon as it appeared, it emitted a purifying aura and the scent of karma. It could even faintly sense the meanings of law-breaking, prohibition, and elimination.

Magic Arts-Breaking Immortal Gold!

Across unknowable distances, resonating with the Taiqing Flying Sword on his true body, it sensed the power of its same origin.

A bit of Magic Arts-Breaking Immortal Gold was mixed into this circuit board-like jade plate!

”Fifth Order Talisman, Master of Refining Nothingness rank, Eradicate Karma!”

Jiang Ding solemnly declared.

This was the Fifth Order concealment talisman he had exchanged with the Xianmen Sect using his sole God-transforming Level combat achievement. It could have come from the distant leader or possibly from some unnamed Heavenly Monarch of the sect.

This talisman had no offensive or defensive effects.

Its sole purpose was to hide one’s presence, conceal karma, and obscure fate from tracking spells!

With it, not even a Master of Refining Nothingness could track him, and due to the infusion of Magic Arts-Breaking Immortal Gold, there was a chance it could conceal from beings beyond Refining Nothingness level at least once.

The single portion of God-transforming Level combat merit he earned from capturing Yu Qianzi was now spent.

”God-transforming battle techniques are indeed not durable,”

Jiang Ding lamented.

God-transforming battle techniques!

These things were extremely useful; they were necessary for entering the Sleeping Hidden Realm. His mother and sister could use them to sleep, and of course, his mother would come before his sister. If there was surplus afterward, he would consider it.

Jiang Ding himself also needed them.

He had no problems with aptitude or cultivation.

The problem was that the secret techniques such as those of Divine Transformation and Refining Nothingness required time to deduce. As the Domain Ruler, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s core cultivation methods and secret techniques were not easy to deduce.

It might be necessary to set up contingencies and enter into thousands or even tens of thousands of years of hibernation, relying on the relentless passage of time to succeed.

Then there was the construction of the super air-space carrier.

After reaching the Nascent Soul, he would surely possess the combat power of a God-transforming level cultivator. According to the standards and customs of the cultivation world, he could almost interact on equal terms with distant God-transforming cultivators, engaging in profound discussions.

He was no longer a little baby.

This meant that people like Yuan, Immortal Yun Gong, Immortal Shuling, and others would not help him unconditionally like they did now. They would no longer continue to look after him as a child.

It meant that everything—after putting aside the inherent subsidies of the Xianmen Sect—if he wanted to drive God-transforming cultivators to help with tasks, Nascent Soul monks to help with tasks, and to participate in the building of a super mothership, he had to give money, lots of money!

Which is to say, God-transforming battle techniques.

Everything, all of it, needed God-transforming battle techniques to keep moving forward, to get their help, to allow the Xianmen Science Institute to keep advancing related Sword Dao research. All of these required it.

”Wait until the later stages of the Golden Pill...”

Jiang Ding’s eyes flashed with brilliance, ”The Geomagnetic Realm, no, the Geomagnetic Realm is not enough. I must push through a Domain, completely obliterate Xuanwu Tiangong’s rule over a large number of Small Worlds, greatly expand the resources of the Xianmen Sect, and amass the God-transforming battle techniques for a war fortress in one fell swoop.”

”We’ll talk about these things later.”

Jiang Ding halted his wandering thoughts and placed the Eradicate Karma talisman on his chest, letting it hover in the air.

Then he ran mana and pseudo Divine Sense electromagnetic waves, forming complex Mana Techniques with his hands. His fingers blurred into afterimages, one after another.

As the Mana Techniques and incantations in his mouth proceeded, vague Runes materialized around his body. Just one look, and his Divine Sense would become blurry, forgetting what had transpired.

This was the activation technique for the Eradicate Karma talisman, extremely complex.

Especially for lower-rank cultivators to use, it was very time-consuming. A slight mistake could destroy the entire talisman, greatly diminishing its value.

After more than a month, the aura around Jiang Ding became weaker and weaker, while the blurry Runes around him piled up layer upon layer, enveloping him entirely, giving him the illusion of being detached from cause and effect.

”Open!”

Jiang Ding shouted lowly, his fingertips surging with fierce Sword Qi, highly condensed, gently sliding across his chest.

His clothes were torn apart, his skin split, and flesh and bone broke apart, turning into silvery-white liquid metal. In the blink of an eye, it reverted to fresh red flesh.

Droplets of blood that seemed all too real fell, and there was the smell of blood.

Even the beating heart was sliced open with his fingertips, and copious amounts of blood gushed out like from a pump.

”The faux reality technology is quite impressive,”

Jiang Ding said weakly.

This wasn’t his true weakness, but a part of the disguise program set by Gold-92; at this moment, he was supposed to appear weak.

”Merge!”

Jiang Ding finalized the last of his Mana Techniques.

In an instant, the Eradicate Karma talisman stirred, along with the surrounding fuzzy Runes, flying toward it and merging with the heart of Gold-92. Flesh and meridians wildly grew, connected, and healed.

In the blink of an eye, his chest was restored to its original state.

Jiang Ding let out a light breath.

Upon inspecting his body internally, there was nothing at the heart—an event seemingly never occurred.

However, he knew that this clone was different. God-transforming cultivators could no longer track him, and they would be involuntarily misled, guided toward misfortune.

Even Masters of Refining Nothingness would be unable to learn anything upon calculation—they would only know that they had been blocked.

”Go find Han Lin.”

”The Falling Void Sect’s traces of Immortal skill...”

Adhering to his body’s setting, Jiang Ding cultivated in stillness and healed for a month until recovery, then concealing his form, he flew out of the Wei Family.